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March 2001. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport settles 23 lawsuits brought against seven unnamed priests for an undisclosed amount of money. The court orders the documents sealed and church officials believe eventually destroyed. Four...

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport's appeal of a state court decision to make public more than 12,000 pages of sexual abuse files involving clergy.
"We were disappointed to learn that the United...

Bishop William E. Lori stands before 141 married couples in the airy sanctuary of St. Theresa Church on a bright October afternoon.
In a voice carrying the faintest trace of the Kentucky lilt that his Louisville upbringing suggests, he welcomes the...

The Rev. Laurence F.X. Brett vanished abruptly almost a decade ago, leaving clothes still hanging in his closet and a trail of accusers stretching across four states and back 30 years.
Now, a Hartford Courant investigation has found the onetime...

New York Cardinal Edward M. Egan, breaking his long-standing silence on sex abuse by members of the clergy, Tuesday released a statement labeling pedophilia an "abomination" and encouraging "anyone who has an allegation to bring it...

In an apparent break with past practice, the Diocese of Bridgeport has reported an allegation of sexual abuse by a priest to state criminal investigators for the first time. As a result, the priest -- the Rev. William D. Donovan of Fairfield -- resigned...

A priest who resigned from a Bridgeport parish recently amid allegations of sexual misconduct committed suicide Thursday at a prominent psychiatric hospital in Maryland, the second such incident linked to the sex scandal now gripping the Roman Catholic...

Four priests whose departures for sexual misconduct were announced Sunday by Bridgeport Bishop William E. Lori were allowed to actively serve for years despite complaints about them, raising more questions about the diocese's past practice of recording...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport argued Monday that it cannot be held responsible for a priest who admittedly sexually abused young boys because priests are not its employees.
They are employees of the parish, not the diocese, a church official...

A Roman Catholic priest who admitted to church authorities that he had sexual encounters with teenage boys was not suspended until nearly 30 years later, it was disclosed in federal court Tuesday.
Bridgeport Bishop Edward M. Egan suspended Laurence...

Rocked by a $750,000 judgment for covering up the sexual misconduct of a priest in the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport is preparing a guide for pastors on how they might respond to concerned parishioners.
But it is unlikely the pastoral...

The head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has condemned the kind of sexual misconduct central to a recent trial in which a federal jury ruled the diocese covered up abuse by one of its priests.
Bishop Edward M. Egan, in his first public...